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Hey guys, I'm new from Reddit. I just wanted to poke the community, I'm working on Lucid Dreaming and there's a ton of conflicting information out there. I've only become lucid a few times in my life, the recent ones were deliberate but short lived. I'd love advice about maintaining lucidity, and also inducing it, just personal stories because I'm tired of reading bullshit how-tos with no personal experience in them. Nice to meet everyone!

Update! Just by participating in the community, I was aware that the odds of my becoming lucid would increase. In fact, last night I went to bed so focused on becoming lucid that it happened again. It was really amazing but again short lived. I just wanted to thank the people who replied to my post. Anyone who wants to work on lucidity should have access to a supporting community, and having the subconscious excited about lucidity adds to our success. So it is a win win. Thanks guys!

Can anyone explain to me why exactly one needs to keep a dream journal? I can imagine writing down your dreams the moment you wake up is a huge setback for many, as I can barely keep my eyes open when I wake up.

For the past 3 weeks, on and off I've been trying to induce sleep paralysis because I want to experiment with the sensation while facing my fears. I spoke to a classmate at school about lucid dreaming and he told me more about it. What I've tried so far is to just lie there without moving but most of the time I either want to move or I just fall asleep. During one attempt, my bones hurt a lot so I decided to move but I don't know if that was because they were becoming numb or it was some reflex. I've tried to induce SP in the afternoon, going to bed at a normal time, when tired and also after waking up in the night but I haven't been successful as of yet. And yes, I know that it is scary and very frightening but I'm willing to face my fears.

Is there a full moon coming up? Cause the least few nights I keep dreaming about my exes....

Last night, I was on a cruise and I ran into 5 of my last girlfriends! It was...well it wasn't awkward it was just weird, I couldn't believe that they were all there--then I took both of them on a racy photoshoot.

Read "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge. Start going to bed a serious 60 or 90 minutes earlier. If you can start regularly getting 9+ hours of sleep, you will begin to wake up more naturally between REM cycles. Before the industrial revolution, people slept two four-hour sleeps with a period of quiet wakefulness between. Lucidity will come easier if you're properly rested. "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self" by Robert Waggoner is a rich book by someone who has been seeking and finding lucidity for most of his life. A sitting meditation practice, particularly Vipassana or similar, are a big help in establishing the frame of mind a person needs to find lucidity easily. Keep a dream journal : diligently maintained over seasons, it will show you the feeling or location or people or shapes that recur when you dream, which is a powerful aid forward. Don't go from the computer to bed : dedicate yourself to whole-body activity or restfulness for awhile beforehand. When you can go to bed easily, without tension or intrusive thoughts, equipped with a map of your own hypnogogic borderlands, you will eventually find success. Entire cultures were swayed by the idea that what you are seeking was the gateway to the domain of the gods and the dead. Don't be discouraged or lazy. Avid readers might also be interested in "Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology" by Marie-Louise von Franz.

I've come across a fascinating book that talks about high level spiritual things from a scientific perspective. This book is intriguing as it talks about many similar things to what people in mystical states mention such as seeing into parallel dimensions and interacting with beings from other worlds etc.

This book is called Zhuan Falun and it is from the Buddha Law School of Cultivation however it is not Buddhism the religion or Daoism the religion, it's something more profound. It seems to me to be more of a spiritual science as many of the terms and concepts in the book are talked about in a scientific down to earth manner instead of flowery mystical prose which I found very refreshing.

Now here is where it gets interesting, this book talks about the following things:

● Other Dimensions - Levels Of Dimensions spanning into the microcosm and also outwards into the macrocosm

● The Soul - It talks about people having a Master soul and a subordinate soul which is hidden from you but is at a more advanced level then you, it states some people have more then one Subordinate soul and some are of not of the same sex as you i.e males having a female subordinate soul etc.

● Microcosmic worlds - This concept was very far out but it talks about there being worlds within you, countless worlds. Similar to our world with life , water, animals etc. An analogy is zooming an an atom within one of your cells and realizing at that level of magnification it is just like our solar system. Then zooming into a single particle in that world and finding out it too is a vast world, apparently the level it can go onwards like this is beyond imagination.

● Supernatural Abilities - In the book they mention that everyone has them it is just that they have atrophied. It goes into depth about this topic. Some abilities that are mentioned are precognition, retrocognition and remote vision.

● The 3rd Eye - Talks about how at the front part of our pineal gland there is a complete structure of an eye there. Modern science calls it a vestigial eye but in the cultivation world they say this eye just naturally exists like that and it can be activated allowing one to pierce through this dimension and see other dimensions. It talks about how there are many levels to this 3rd eye and it goes into great depth about it.

● Thoughts - This part was amazing. It talks about how a human brain is just a processing plant. How the real you is actually your soul, it's like your whole body and brain is just a vehicle and that the true commands are issued by your master soul, but this master soul is very tiny and it can switch positions while inside you and it can also expand and shrink. It can move from your brain to your heart and to other parts of your body and it is 'he' who calls the shots. Your brain is just the factory which your master soul sends his cosmic commands to which then create the forms of expression and communication we use such as speech, gestures, etc.

These are just a few things that are covered but there are many many other things which blew my mind when I read it because of how it resonated with some of the mystical experiences people sometimes have, especially the multidimensional nature of reality and how all of them are hidden in our day to day perceptions of the world.

If this sounds interesting to anyone you can grab a copy of the book here:

since I love being in the hypnagogic state I'm kinda curious, do you enjoy the hypnagogic state? If so, do you push yourself to stay in this state? Tell me what you think!

What's the hypnagogic state?

The hypnagogic state is a state of conciousness. Right before you fall asleep, you enter the hypnagogic state. If you "look at your eyelids" you'll see hallucinations. That is normal and accurs always, you just don't notice it if you don't pay attention to it. If you do, though, you can see and follow those hallucinations. This can be used to enter lucid dreams, too.

It has been almost a year since I've LD'd.
I never had to try before, it just happened.
I've tried to learn the techniques but I get frustrated with anticipation then wake up not being able to sleep. I miss it but it's weird that it keeps me up at night if I try. Any suggestions are welcome.

I had a dream that I was back in college (I hate these dreams) but I was hanging out with a friend and as we where walking, we entered this massive Airplane hangar esq warehouse and in the middle was 'the biggest tree in the world' and it was incredibly wide. It' wasn't very tall (perhaps about 4 stories) but very wide. My friend and I walked up to it and saw acorns on it...I went to grab one but my friend said, 'it's not ripe, here have this one" and he went up a ladder next to the tree and plucked an acorn.

Then after we left I found myself in another building with a bunch of people in particular Glenn and Rick from the Walking Dead and Rick said, "You where right, we should have never left this place." And they began running around and barricading all the doors and windows and setting up a rocket launcher booby trap at the main door entrance.

The last few nights i've had several dreams where I banged several women.

The one last night was the most realistic, bright colors, wind, the feel of sunshine. When I woke up I was confused where I was real.

Anyway, the dream last night had a couple of dreams but again I had sex with several different women and then towards the end, I ended up getting married. I went to work for a week and when I came back she gave me divorce papers and as I was filling them out, it turned out she only wanted to marry me for my money, but because she was stupid she didn't know that you had to be married for longer than a week to be entitled to my money...